Mi 



■ 



I 






K. : 




K5£C^£^ £ Q0 Qg £$^ggm^ Q 5 ^ 



§ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. | 



i. ._..UlGL&23 

Me// ^-31-J-To- 

^ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



A MONTH'S TOUR 



THROUGH THE 



Alps of Switzerland. 



Prof. JAMES D.^DANA. 



ROUTE 



FOR 



A M O N T II ' S TO U R 



i HRoIV.lI THE 



Alps of Switzerland. 






James D: : Dana, LL.D., 

SiHiman Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Yale College. 







NEW HAVEN, CONN. : 

CHARLES C. CHATFIELD & CD. 

1871. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by 

Charles C. Chatfield & Co., 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



%1r 



THE ROUTE 



THROUGH THE 



ALPS OF SWITZERLAND. 



By the route here described the tourist (whether man 
or woman) may visit, in thirty or thirty-five days, the 
points of special interest on the principal passes of the 
Alps, its grandest glaciers included, besides the lakes 
and much of the scenery of lower Switzerland. The 
plan in its principal points was laid out for the writer in 
i860, by Prof. H. de Saussure of Geneva. Only the 
names of the passes and the prominent places are men- 
tioned below, as all details as to excursions about each 
place, even to the names of hotels and expenses of horses 
and guides, may be learned from the guide-books, either 
Murray's, published in London, or Baedekers, which is 
far preferable, and may be had in German, French, or 
English. The tour is made to commence with Cham- 
ouni, because this famous region does not give the same 
pleasure after the rest of the Alps has been seen, and 
also, because the journey over the Gemmi is easier, and 
is a source of more constant surprises and delight, when 
made from the Rhone northward, than when in the op- 



(4) 

posite direction. Very many travelers enter Switzer- 
land by Basle (on the Rhine) and go direct to Inter- 
laken — distant from Basle by railroad and a boat ride 
on Lake Thun six to eight hours. But there is railway 
connection also through Lausanne with Geneva, and 
the distance is only three or four hours greater ; or one 
hour more than this if the steamboat on Lake Geneva is 
taken at Lausanne. 

The route is as follows : — 

i. From Geneva to Chamouni, the region of the Mt. 
Blanc glaciers, visiting Montanvert, the Fle'gere, etc. 

2. From Chamouni, by the pass of the Tete Noire 
(noted for its profound gorges and rocky defiles), or the 
higher Col de Balme (remarkable for its one view of the 
Mt. Blanc glacier region, and its aiguilles), to Martigny, 
on the Rhone — eight to nine hours. 

3. From Martigny to the Hospice of Great St. Ber- 
nard at the summit of the pass (8,200 feet high) to Aosta 
— eight hours ; next clay back to Martigny. 

4. From Martigny up the Rhone to Visp (forty-six 

miles). Thence to Zermatt, the region of the Mt. Rosa 

glaciers — nine hours. (St. Nicolas is a half-way station 

where a night can be spent should circumstances make 

it desirable, and the next day may then terminate at the 

Riffelberg inn, two hours beyond Zermatt.) After one 

or two clays of excursions in the vicinity, return to Visp. 

[Or substitute for 3 and 4 the following 3* and 4*, in which the 
tourist avoids doubling on his track, and crosses one of the grand- 
est of Alpine passes, the San Theodule, 10,897 feet above the sea 



(5) 

close by the towering Matterhorn, 14,705 feet high. Ladies fre- 
quently cross, although passible part of the way only on foot. 

3*. From Martigny to the Hospice of Great St. Bernard, and 
thence to Aosta — in all sixteen hours (or two days). 

4*. From Aosta to Breuil through Chatillon (about thirty miles 
or one day) ; then, if the weather promises to be good, over the 
San Theodule Pass, to the Riffelberg inn (seven hours, or one day) ; 
next, a day's excursion to the Corner Grat, etc., terminating at 
Zermatt. Thence to Visp — nine hours.] 

5. From Visp, down the Rhone to Leuk (fifteen miles) ; 
and thence to Leukerbad (-J-8|m.). Then over the 
Gemmi (pronounced Ghemmi) to Kandersteg — seven 
hours ; and down to Interlaken (between Lakes Thun 
and Brienz) (24^111.), a rapid and remarkably beautiful 
drive, the latter part of it near the borders of Lake 
Thun. 

6. From Interlaken to Thun and Berne, bv railroad 
— 2hrs. ' 

7. From Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen — 2hrs ; then, 
over the pass of the Wengern Alp, (directly in front of 
the Jungfrau) into the Grindelwald valley, into which two 
glaciers descend — 5hrs. ; an excursion by no means to 
be neglected. 

8. From Grindelwald up the Faulhorn, this summit 
affording a view of the whole Bernese Oberland ; the 
excursion should include a night at the summit inn, as 
a morning view is preferable. Still better, from Inter- 
laken up the Schydige Platte, even a grander point of 
view than the Faulhorn : can take the Schvdisfe Platte 
on the return to Interlaken or Grindelwald from the 
Faulhorn. 



(6) 

9. From Grindelwald over the pass of the Great Schei- 
deck, by the foot of the Rosenlaui glacier (and usually 
in sight of some avalanches) to Meyringen — 7|hrs. 
Those making the ascent of the Faulhorn may descend 
in the morning to the Scheideck pass and Meyringen, 
instead of returning to Grindelwald. 

10. From Meyringen up the Grimsel pass to the 
Grimsel Hospice — "a homely inn" — 7hrs. 

1 1. From the Grimsel Hospice to the Aar Glacier, one 
of the largest glaciers in the Alps (the one lived on and 
studied for several seasons by Agassiz) — distant ijhrs. ; 
an excursion up the glacier may occupy a day. 

12. From the Grimsel Hospice over the Furca pass, 
by the foot of the Rhone Glacier, a cascade glacier, to 
Hospenthal on the St. Gothard pass — 7|hrs. 

13. Down the St. G. pass (best early in the morning 
or toward sunset), 6 or 7m., to its greatest wonder, the 
Devil's Bridge and "its savage gorge." 

[If there is not time to continue the tour farther east- 
ward, descent may be made by the St. G. pass to L. 
Lucerne.] 

14. From Hospenthal to Andermatt (2m.) and then, 
over the rather tame pass of the Oberalp, to Dissentis, 
in the valley of the Rhine (the Vorder Rhein) — 7|hrs* 
Then by diligence down the valley (along here, as be- 
low Mayence, that of the "castellated " Rhine) to Reich- 
enau (4i|m.) at the junction of the "Vorder Rhein" 
and " Hinter Rhein " (the latter the branch from the 
south). Reichenau is the place where, in 1793, Louis 



(7) 

Phillippe, then Duke de Chartres, was in disguise as 
Mons. Chabot, the schoolmaster. 

15. From Reichenau to Tusis and the wonderful Via 

Mala on the Splugen pass (a cut in the rocks made for, 

if not also by, the impetuous upper Rhine, extending for 

three miles, and in some parts less than thirty feet 

wide though sixteen hundred feet deep), " perhaps the 

most sublime and tremendous defile in Switzerland ;" it 

is best seen when the sun is low and the shadows. long. 

Return and go to Coire (Chur in German), 6m. 

[Or, in place of 3, the Gr. St. Bernard pass, which is one of the 
least interesting of the passes, and also of 14, 15, substitute (by the 
advice of A. Agassiz) the following : 

14*, From Andermatt over the St. Gothard pass to JBellinzona 
(56 m.) ; and then — 

15*, From Bellinzona over the Bernardino and Splugen passes 
to the Via Mala (60 m.) and Reichenau (-{-11 m.) and thence to 
Coire {-^-jm.).] 

16. From Coire, by railroad, to Ragatz (14m.), and 
thence (stopping over a train) to the hot springs and 
baths, gorge and dark chasm of Pfeffers (2^ni.) Thence 
to Rorschach on Lake Constance (127m.), and St. Gall 
(-|-9m.) for the night, a place remarkable for its manufac- 
tures and its thriving American look : or else keep on 
to Zurich (+S3m.). 

17. From Zurich to Lucerne over the Albis ; to the 
Rigi, Fliielen, Altorf, on Lake Lucerne. 

The number of traveling days required for this series 

of excursions is as follows i 

No. 1. Geneva* Chamouni, « , , 3 days. 

" 2. To Martigny, i » . * 1 " 



(8) 

No. 3. Gt. St. Bernard, .... 2 days. 

" 4. Visp, Zermatt, Visp, . . . 4 " 

[or as a substitute, Gt. St. Bernard, Aosta, San 

Theod. pass, Visp (3* 4*) . . . 6 " ] 

" 5. Leukerbad, Gemmi, to Interlaken, 1 " 

" 6-9. Interlaken and vicinity to Meyringen, 4 " 

" 10,11. Grimsel, Aar Glacier 2 " 

" 12, 13. Furca, Devil's Bridge 2 " 

" 14, 15. Oberalp, Reichenau, Via Mala 3 " 

" 16, 17. Coire, Pfeffers, Zurich, to Lucerne 2 " 

" 18. At Lucerne and vicinity 2 " 

Total of traveling days, 26 " 

A detention of 3 days by bad weather may be looked 
for, lengthening the time to 29 days. The time may be 
shortened 2 days by taking one less at Chamouni and 
Lucerne ; and 8 days more by omitting Nos. 3, and 14 
to 18. 

While the whole tour may be made on foot, yet to put 
it in the above mentioned time, it will be necessary to 
use railroads where there are any ; and also to take a 
vehicle from Kandersteg to Interlaken (No. 5), and the 
diligence from Dissentis to Reichenau (No. 14), or, over 
part at least of the St. Gothard and Bernardino passes 
if these be taken (and also from Sion to Visp, if the 
projected railroad is not yet completed). 

The tour should not be begun before the 20th of July 
if the Mt. Rosa region is to be included ; omitting this 
the 1st of July will not be too early. But if part of 
the route is reversed, as below, the tourist may start 
on the complete tour any time in July that will bring 
the Mt. Rosa excursion into August, and this plan 
has the advantage of putting the most remarkable 



(9) 

passes and scenes — those about Monte Rosa — toward 
the last. The course proposed for it is as follows : 

No. I (of preceding numbers). To and at Chamouni, 3 days. 

" 2. To Martigny 1 " 

" 5, Leukerbad, the Gemmi, to Interlaken 1 " 

" 7,8,9. Interlaken and vicinity 3 " 

" 6,17. Berne, Lucerne and vicinity 3 " 

" 17,16. Albis, Zurich, Pfeffers, to Coire 2 " 

" 15, 14, 13. Reichenau, Via Mala, Oberalp, Andermatt ) ti 
Devil's Bridge, Hospenthal, J J 

[or, longer, 15*, 14*, Reichenau, Via Mala, Bernard- 
ino, Bellinzona, Andermatt, Devil's Bridge] 

" 12, 11. Furca, Grimsel Hospice, Aar Gl. 2 " 

A. Grimsel H. to Briegonthe Simplon pass — iohrs. 1 " 

B. Brieg to Visp (534m) 5 t0 St - Nicolas (+4>< hrs.) 1 " 

4, 4* St. Nicolas, Zermatt, Riffelberg inn (7hrs.) 1 " 

4* San Theodule pass, to Breuil 1 " 

4*, 3* Breuil to Aosta, Gt. St. Bernard, Martigny 3 " 

In all 26 days • or, omitting the part to Pfeffers, 
Coire, Reichenau and the Oberalp, 21 days. From 
Martigny a railroad ride of an hour and a half brings 
the tourist to the head of Lake Geneva ; and not far on, 
bordering the lake, are the castle of Chillon, Montreux, 
Lausanne. From Lausaune, there is a railroad north- 
ward to Basle, or northeastward to Zurich, Schaffliausen, 
etc. 

The expenses of such a trip are approximately as fol- 
lows : Steamer to and from Bremen, 1st cabin, $240 
gold, 2nd cabin (very comfortable), $144 ; from Bremen 
to Geneva, and from Switzerland to Bremen, by the 
routes below, $60 ; ^>Z days of excursions in Switzer- 
land, if taken mostly on foot, with a guide for the prin- 
cipal passes, not over $90. (A day at the Swiss hotels 
costs 8 to 10 francs.) Add for 6 days stopping both 



( io) 

on the way to, and from Bremen, $50 (exclusive of 
traveling expenses already estimated) ; and also 12 p. c. 
for difference of exchange. This estimate makes the 
amount in currency required for such as take the 1st 
cabin to Bremen, about $500, the 2d cabin, $400.^ 

The route from Bremen to Geneva may be that of 
the Rhine ; and the most important places to stop at 
are Cologne, Bonn, Coblenz, Frankfort, Heidelberg, 
Strasburg, Basle ; the journey from Cologne to Mayence 
should be made in a boat on the Rhine (this being the 
part of the river famous for its scenery), and the rest of 
the way in the cars. On the return from Switzerland to 
Bremen, the places visited may be Augsburg, Munich, 
Nuremberg, Dresden, and Leipzig (with Berlin, if time 
and money hold out) ; then to Bremen. The 2nd class 
cars on the continent are as good as the ordinary 
American, and much cheaper than the 1st class — -the 
latter answering to our palace cars. 

The French steamers charge for 1st cabin, each way, 
$140 in gold ; for 2nd cabin $75. Railroad time from 
Havre to Paris, 6 or 7 hours ; from Paris to Geneva, 
15 to 18 hours. 

The new White Star line of steamers to Liverpool, 
charges only $80 gold, for the best accommodations ; 
and the Inman line, $75 ; and hence $500 in currency 
would enable the tourist to spend a few days in England, 
and visit, starting from Liverpool, Chester, Manchester, 
Chatsworth, Birmingham, Warwick, Kenilworth, Strat- 
ford-on-Avon (the last three places near one another), 
Oxford, London. From London to Paris the distance 



(") 

in time is only n hours. The Inman line advertises to 
convey passengers from New York to Paris for $90. 

It is better to go by England or France and return by 
Bremen. Time: on the ocean, 24 days; to and from 
Switzerland, after landing, 12 days ; in Switzerland, 30 
to S3 days : total, 9 to 10 weeks ; or 24-f-io~|~25=8 l o 
weeks. Take but little baggage. 



Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue 



OF 



Valuable Educational and Scientific 



BOOKS 



PUBLISHED BY 



Charles C. Chatfield & Co 



458 and 460 Chapel Street, 



(OPPOSITE YALE COLLEGE,) 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 




THE COLLEGE C OUR A NT PRLNT. 
1871. 



OUR PUBLICATIONS WILL BE SENT POST-PAID ON 
RECEIPT OF PRICE, OR CAN BE OBTAINED OF ANY 
BOOKSELLER IN THE UNITED STATES. 



PUBLIC A TIONS. 



A TEXT-BOOK OF ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY: 

THEORETICAL AND INORGANIC. 

BY GEORGE F. BARKER, M.D., 

Professor of Physiological Chemistry in Yale College. 

102 Illustrations. . . Pp. 350. . . Price $1.75. 
Single copies to Instructors, for examination, $1.00. 

Professor Barker's Chemistry was published Nov. 1st, 1870. 
Advance pages were sent out in September to several institutions 
which had decided to adopt it as a text-book, so that it was thor- 
oughly tested in the class-room before it was published. Perhaps 
no text-book has received such a cordial welcome from distinguished 
professors of chemistry and educators as this. The author's aim in 
writing it is clearly shown by the following 

Extracts from the Preface. 

The first part of this book is intended to be an elementary treatise 
upon Theoretical Chemistry. It aims to present the principles of 
the science as they are held by the best chemists of the day, upon a 
new plan of treatment which the author has found simple and satis- 
factory in his own teaching. * * * The second part of the book 
contains the facts of Inorganic Chemistry, arranged systematically 
under appropriate heads. To as great an extent as seemed desirable, 
theory has been applied to explain the formation and properties of 
compounds. The unsatisfactory classification of the elements into 
metals and metalloids is discarded, and they are arranged electro- 
chemically, from negative to positive. * * * The entire book, 
it is believed, is a fair representation of the present state of Chem- 
ical science. If much appears in it that is novel, much more has 
been omitted because unsuited to a strictly elementary book. * * 

In conclusion, this text-book is offered as a contribution toward 
making science disciplinary as well as instructive. If it be true 
that Chemistry already excels in training the powers of perception 
and of memory, it is unquestionably true that this science is capa- 



C. C. CHATFIELD & CO. 



blc of developing the reasoning faculties also. The present attempt 
to make it available for this purpose, therefore, may fairly ask to 
be judged, not in the light of its shortcomings alone, but also by 
the desirability of the end at which it aims." 

Chemistry having undergone a remarkable revolution within the 
past ten years, important new discoveries having been made, a true 
science having been evolved from a heterogeneous mass of facts, 
there was a great need felt by all Professors and instructors in this 
department for a text-book strictly scientific in its presentation of 
modern Chemistry, and at the same time clear and comprehensive 
to the student. How far this work has met the wants of instruct- 
ors may be inferred from the few opinions below, which we have 
selected from hundreds in our possession. 

Opinions of Professors and Instructors in Chemistry. 

The clearest and most concise presentation of the new theory 
which I have seen. This endorsement is made after using the book 
four months in my classes. — Prof. E. T. Nelson, Hanover Coll., Ind. 

Experience with the book in teaching has more than confirmed 
the favorable impression which its first appearance gave. In point 
of clearness, conciseness and systematic arrangement, it is a model 
and is without a rival. — Prof. A. W. Wright, Williams College, Mass. 

It is in my judgment the best work of the kind which has yet ap- 
peared in our country. It is exact, concise, methodical, and in all 
respects admirably adapted to thorough work in the class-room. — 
Wm. F. Phelps, Principal of State Normal School, Minnesota. 

No teacher of modern chemistry can well get on without this 
book. Chemistry assumes the form of an exact science when treat- 
ed in such a masterly manner. Barker's Chemistry is decidedly 
one of the best of its kind, and we heartily commend it to the no- 
tice of all teachers and scholars.— Prof C. A. Joy, in Journal of 
Applied Chemistry. 

The arrangement of the work is admirable and its exhibition of 
the principles of chemical science, as held by the leading chemists 
of the present time, is clear and satisfactory. We are pleased with 
the book and shall not hesitate to recommend it to those under our 
instruction. — Prof. C. F. Brackett, in Bowdoin Scientific Review. 

I have examined it with a good deal of care and am highly pleased 
with it. Its clear and precise statements of chemical science rec- 
ommend it as an educational work of the highest character.— Prof 
Geo. H. Cock, Rutgers College, N J. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. • $ 



It seems to me that it would be impossible to state the principles 
and facts of elementary chemistry more plainly, concisely and im- 
pressively.— Prof. F. A. Lord, AID., Chicago, III. 

Wholly in the spirit of the most advanced thought in the science. 
— Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, Harvard University. 

It is the only perfectly satisfactory text-book of Chemistry that I 
have ever seen. — Prof. F. II. Bradley, East Tennessee University. 

An attractive book of high grade. Its mechanical execution 
throughout is unexceptionable. — Prof. Lcroy C. Cooley, Albany 
State Normal School. 

It is decidedly the clearest and most satisfactory statement of the 
new Chemical Theory which has as yet appeared, and I hardly 
know any other source from which so much information can be ob- 
tained in regard to modern Chemistry. — Prof. Thomas R. Pynchon 
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 

The only thorough text-book in Chemistry we possess. — Prof 
T. R. Noyes, M.D., Oneida, AT. Y. 

It is a great improvement upon all other text-books now in use 
oa the same subject.— Cyrus Nutt, D.D., Prest. Ind. State Univ. 

The first American text-book in Chemistry which possesses suffi- 
cient intrinsic and specific value to warrant its publication. — Pro/ 
C. Hinrichs, Icnua State University. 

I adopt' it as our college text-book in preference to all others. — 
A r oah K. Davis, President of Bethel College, R~y. 

An admirable book. * * The clearest exposition, of the pres- 
ent condition of the subject. * * A great boon to teachers. — 
Prof. C. F. Chandler, Ph. D., Columbia College, in Am. Chemist. 

I know of no elementary text-book in the language which equals 
it in clear and succinct presentation of what has come to be called 
Modern Chemistry. — Prof. Peter Collier, Univ. of Vermont. 

I am fully of the opinion that for my college classes, this little 
work of Prof. Barker is the best introduction to the study of Ele- 
mentary Chemistry. — Prof J. P. Marshall, Tufts College. 

It will take a foremost position as a text- book in our academies 

and colleges.— Samuel Fallows, Supi. of Public Instruction in Wis. 

To those who wish a concise and elegant summary of the present 
views of advanced thinkers, with a judicious selection of the most 
important facts of the science, freed from the burdensome mass of 
details which distend many of our text-books, comprised in a vol- 
ume of convenient size and tasteful style, by a chemist who stands 
among the foremost, both in the extent of his attainments and the 
progressiveness of his views, this text-book may be confidently rec- 
ommended. — Prof W. j\ t . Rice, in Zion's Herald, ' 



C. C. CHATFIELD & CO. 



Opinions of the Press. 

Its strict scientific method, its clear, condensed power of state- 
ment, and above all, its conformity at all points with the most re- 
cent improvements in the nomenclature of the science, as well as 
with the latest results of investigations, give it a decided advantage 
over previous text -books. As a manual to prepare the student for 
a course of lectures or for laboratory work, it can safely be recom- 
mended to all teachers of the science. — A 7 *. Y. Evening Post. 

A compact elementary text book, the first in our language where- 
in " Modern Chemistry" is presented systematically. The style of 
the work is concise and animated, the illustrations are fresh, the 
typography is good and it cannot fail of a hearty welcome among 
our teachers and learners. — American Journal of Science. 

The writer of the treatise goes to the very root of the matter, 
and the scholar who thoroughly masters it, will secure intellectual 
discipline as well as results of exact science which he can apply to 
actual life. — Religious Herald, (Hartford, Conn.) 

It is prepared in accordance with the latest advances in the sci- 
ence, is full, complete and freely illustrated. It is published in very 
handsome style. — Boston Advertiser. 

A treatise which for thorough representation of modern rather 
than ancient ideas, for compactness of style and arrangement, and 
for clearness and accuracy of definition is, we think, unsurpassed. 
— The N. Y. Medical Record. 

The most systematic and valuable work of its kind ever published 
in this country. — Wqterbury (Conn.) American. 

Original in diction, lucid in statement, and fully up to the present 
state of the science. — Connecticut School Journal. 

We have never taken up any work of the kind which was so 
lucid in arrangement, or more beautifully adapted to its purpose as 
a text-book. — Hartford ( Conn.) Conrant. 

In scope and style the work is specially adapted to use in schools 
where science is to be taught thoroughly, even if briefly. — Milwau- 
kee Sentinel. 

The name of the author of this manual is a guaranty that its sci- 
entific and practical value is of a high standard. It is printed in 
clear, fine type, upon heavy tinted paper, copiously illustrated with 
exquisite wood cuts, and neatly and substantially bound in muslin. 
— Chicago Post. 

We are, after examination, prepared to give the book hearty 
commendation. It is admirably calculated to introduce beginners 
into the science of Chemistry. — Scientific American. 

Such volumes as these are landmarks in the progress of science 
and scientific instruction. — Congregational Quarterly Review. 

Altogether it is calculated to prove of the greatest possible ser 
vice to students. — A T ew York Times. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



Specimen Cuts from Prof. Barker's Chemistry. 

No expense has been spared in the manufacture of the book. It 
contains 102 wood cuts. The following may serve as specimens : 




Marsh's Arsenic Apparatus. 




Crystalline forms of Diamond. 




Crude Distillation of Sulphur. 



C. C. CHATFIELD & CO. 



THE AMERICAN COLLEGES AND THE AMER- 
ICAN PUBLIC. 

By Prof. Noah Porter, D.D., Yale College. 
i2mo, 275 pp. Price $1.50. 

This book has had a steadily increasing sale since it was pub- 
lished last June. Every one who is interested in the subject of col- 
legiate education, and especially in the Yale idea, in contradistinc- 
tion to that of Harvard, will desire to read this book. The London 
Saturday Review says that it vindicates very ably, and with a thor- 
oughness of treatment that argues a complete study of the subject 
in all its bearings, as well as a long and profound practical experi- 
ence, the value of classical study as the foundation of all true cul- 
ture and high education. 

The book has been read by the wisest educators, and carefully, 
critically reviewed by the ablest papers in the country. The pub- 
lishers ask a perusal of the following 

Opinions of Papers and Individuals. 

A vigorous defence of the older system of collegiate study, disci- 
pline and culture. — Congregational is t. 

The great champion of American colleges is Prof. Porter of Yale 
College. . . . The best work ever published on this subject of 
collegiate education.— Springfield Republican. 

The work abounds with incidental suggestions of great impor- 
tance to practical educators.— Presbyterian Banner, Pittsburg. 

We wish the entire American public might read this treatise. It 
bears upon one of the most important questions relating to the fu- 
ture welfare of our country. — CJturchmau, Hartford, Conn. 

We recommend this book to every educator in the land and es- 
pecially to all educational sciolists and scientific spread-eagles. — 
Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia. 

We recommend this volume to every student and intelligent 
thinker.— A 7 ". Y. Observer. 

We cannot see how his [Prof. Porter's] arguments are to be set 
aside. — JV. W. Christian Advocate. 

It is emphatically a book for the times, treating a subject of vital 
importance. — Central Baptist, St. Louis, Mo. 

The book is written in the interests of society, and not of cliques 
and partizans. — Scottish American. 

All men interested in the cause of education will welcome Prof. 
Porter's book as a valuable contribution toward the solution of the 
inquiry, How can the collegiate system be judiciously improved or 
changed ? — JV. Y. Times. 

I have read it with very deep interest. — Prest. McCosh, Princeton. 

An excellent and valuable work. — Prest. Cummings, Wesleyan. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



Able and just presentations our of colleges to the public. — Prest. 
Anderson, Rochester University. 

The discussion is not only very reasonable, but thorough, com- 
prehensive and wise. — President Brown, Hamilton College. 

An able and scholarly review of the system of instruction pursued 
in our American colleges.— /V<?/! Francis Bowen, Harvard. 

Unique, profound, discriminating. — Prof. L.HAlwater, Princeton. 

It [Prof. Porter's American Colleges] is like Webster's immortal 
reply to Hayne on the subject of State Rights. It covers the whole 
ground, and stands an unanswerable demonstration for all who have 
the brains to comprehend the force of argument. —From Address of 
Maj. Bundy before the Alumni of Beloit College. 

SONGS OF YALE. 

A NEW COLLECTION OF THE SONGS OF YALE, with 
Music. Edited by Charles S. Elliot, Class of 1867. i6mo, 
125 pp. Price in extra cloth, $1.00 ; in super-extra cloth, bev- 
eled boards, tinted paper, gilt edges, $1.50. 

In this collection are comprised not only the new and most pop- 
ular Songs of Yale, but those which are common to all colleges. * 
The nature of the book itself is sufficiently explained in its title. 
Many of the songs which Mr. Elliot gives are new to us, and we be- 
lieve have never before appeared in print. Others are old, but so 
good that we believe college boys will go on singing them forever. 
. . . A good college song, however, very soon becomes com- 
mon property among the collegians of the whole country. It is one 
of those things that wont stay at home. It is a peculiar thing in 
other respects as well. ■ One who knows nothing about the incom- 
prehensible ways of college students will be horrified, upon looking 
through this volume, to, discover what outlandish jargon a great 
many of these college songs are. Words are put together with ap- 
parently no regard for sound and harmony, to say nothing of sense. 
Yet, get a dozen college students, sitting at twilight on the inter- 
dicted college fence, or later in the evening, gathered in a cluster 
beneath the windows of a young ladies seminary— and they blend 
all this jargon into most delightful music. Not all college songs 
are jargon, however. None of the tunes to which words have been 
adapted lack a peculiar harmony, and in many cases the words 
themselves are musical through their own exquisite poetry. 

— Ithaca Herald. 

To young and old collegians this will prove a welcome volume — 
to the latter, in recalling some of the most agreeable associations of 
student life, and to the former in supplying a useful text-book for 
the recreative course pursued with delighted eagerness alike by 
bright scholars and dull youths. The social side of university life 
is here happily indicated — the side which has hardly less to do with 
character-moulding than has the more serious business of the col- 
legiate period. The songs of Yale and the close friendships and 
genial intercourse, of which they are the incidents and the symbol, 
are unlikely to be forgotten by those who smg and share them, and 
they leave as deep and lasting an impression as any facts in Yale 
experience. — Ho?7ie Joiimal. 



IO C. C. CHATFIELD & CO. 



MINING MACHINERY, 

AND VARIOUS MECHANICAL APPLIANCES IN USE, 
chiefly in the Pacific States and Territories, for Mining, Raising 
and Working Ores, with Comparative Notices of Foreign Appa- 
ratus for similar purposes. By Professor William P. Blake. 
Price $2.00. 

This book is a large octavo, containing 245 pages, and is finely 
illustrated with over 100 wood cuts. It is a most invaluable book 
to all interested in the working of the mines of the Territories, 



UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC SERIES. 

Scientific Lectures, Addresses, and Essays, brought out in neat pam- 
phlet form, of uniform style and price. 

The aim has been in bringing out this series to present in a neat, 
convenient and cheap form the advance thought of the leading men 
of science throughout the world. The favor with which the public 
have received the various pamphlets as issued has been most grati- 
fying. Ten thousand copies of No. I were sold in a few months, 
and nearly as many of the other numbers. From the hundreds of 
endorsements of the series, we select the following : 

Rev. Dr. Whedon, in the Methodist Quarterly Revieiv : " In con- 
clusion, we very decidedly recommend Mr. Chatfield's University 
Series, in which the momentous problems started by science and 
touching the sublimest hopes of man, which are stirring the higher 
thought of the age, are shaped into cheap tracts and scattered broad- 
cast before the public mind. They should be read, at any rate, by 
our clergy, inasmuch as the questions raised cannot be ignored, 
and the minister who disregards them may not only meet the re- 
bukes of the scientists, but may find his congregation wiser than its 
teacher. Mr. Chatfield's publications present impartially the /vari- 
ous phases of the many-sided discussions." 

Hon. Samuel Fallows, Superintendent of Public Instruction of 
Wisconsin : " I hail with delight the appearance of the University 
Series. You are furnishing' for almost nothing the most valuable 
thoughts upon educational and scientific subjects given to the world. 
Every educator and every clergyman in the country ought to pos- 
sess the Series." 

The University Series. 

I.— ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE. By Prof. T. 
II. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S. With an introduction by a Professor 
in Yale College. i2mo, pp. 36. Price 25 cents. 

This is the celebrated lecture which has created so much discus- 
sion among divines and medical men throughout the world. It has 
been translated into all the principal languages. The interest in it 
seems to be greater to-day than ever before. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. II 



II.— THE CORRELATION OF VITAL AND PHYSICAL 
FORCES. By Prof. George F. Barker, M.D., of Yale College. 
A Lecture delivered before the American Institute, N. Y. Pp. 36. 
Price 25 cents. 

This lecture was first delivered before the American Institute, 
New York. It elicited great discussion among men of science and 
theologians. It was translated and published in Les Mondcs, and 
received the following editorial endorsement from its distinguished 
editor, M. L'Abbe Moigno : 

"At first this American lecture seems very radical ; those of our 
readers who do not carefully consider it will see in it too many con- 
cessions made to materialism. We do not, however, hesitate to 
publish it, because on the one hand it is a very remarkable lecture, 
and on the other, it is at the bottom thoroughly orthodox." 

III.— AS REGARDS PROTOPLASM, in Relation to Prof. 
Huxley's Physical Basis of Life. By J. Hutchison Stirling, 
F.R.C.S. Pp. 72. Price 25 cents. 

This lecture is universally conceded to be the ablest reply which 
has been made to Y\oL Huxley "On the Physical Basis of Life." 
It was originally published in pamphlet form in Edinburgh, and 
sold for one shilling. 

IV.— ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF EVOLUTION, Physical 
and Metaphysical. By Prof. Edward D. Cope. i2mo, 72 pp. 
Price 25 cents. 

" It is a very full discussion of the doctrine of Evolution, and 
presents' it in a lucid manner, correlating a great variety of facts." 
— Providence (R. I.) Press. 

V.— SCIENTIFIC ADDRESSES :— 1. On the Methods and 
Tendencies of Physical Investigation. 2. On Haze and Dust. 3. 
On the Scientific Use of the Imagination. By Prof. John Tyndall, 
F.R.S. i2mo, 74 pp. Price 25 cents. 

These three lectures are the most famous yet delivered by this 
most celebrated scientist of England. 



It is the intention of the publishers to add to this series other 
lectures as fast as those of sufficient importance present themselves. 
On an average, two every three months may be expected. Every- 
thing admitted to this series is thoroughly examined by some dis- 
tinguished Professor at Yale, and will be found, we trust, worthy 
of the consideration of every thinking person of the age. 

Subscriptions are received and the numbers mailed, post-paid, 
as soon as published, at the following rates : Five successive num- 
bers (in advance), $1.10; Ten successive numbers (in advance), 
$2.00. For sale by all booksellers. 



%f 



12 C. C. CHATFIELD & CO. 

PAPERS AND PERIODICALS. 



THE COLLEGE COURANT: A large College, Literary 
and Scientific Weekly, of 16 pages. CONDUCTED BY COL- 
LEGE GRADUATES. Terms $4.00 per year, in advance. One 
of the most valuable advertising mediums in the United States for 
those wishing to reach educated persons. 

THE YALE COURANT : An eight-page paper, published 
every week during Term time, at Yale. Edited by three mem- 
bers of the Senior class and one from the Sheffield Scientific 
School. Terms $2.00 per year, in advance. 

Both papers sent to the same person, for one year, for #5.00. 

THE BOOK WORM : A large eight-page monthly. Con- 
taining careful reviews of new books and general literary news. 
Terms — one vear, $1.00. 



Any of our publications sent, postage paid, on receipt of price. 
CHARLES C. CHATFIELD & CO., 
New Haven Conn. 



NEW BOOKS IN PRESS, 

TO RE PUBLISHED DURING THE SUMMER OF 1871. 



POUR YEARS AT YALE. By a Graduate of '69. _ i2ino, 650 
pages, price $2.50. A complete and carefully classified hand- 
book of all the facts relating to Yale undergraduate life ; includ- 
ing detailed histories of the society system, the general student 
customs and ceremonies, and the official curriculum of studies. 

THE SCIENCE OP iESTHETICS ; or, THE NATURE, 
KINDS, LAWS AND USES OF BEAUTY. By Henry N. 
Day, author of " Logic," "Art of Discourse," " English Litera- 
ture," etc. 121110, (about 300 pages). 

LOGICAL PRAXIS : Comprising a summary of the principles 
of Logical Science and copious exercises for practical applica- 
tion. By Henry N. Day, author of " Elements of Logic," 
"Rhetoric," "Rhetorical Practice," " ^Esthetics," etc. 

ROBINSON CRUSOE. A new Household Edition, beauti- 
fully illustrated. 

University Series — Nos. VI, VII and VIII. 



utiSSft'J.y OF^NQRESS^ 



M 021 655 223 4 



■K 



Efi 



I 






